The Portland daily press., 1887-05-16
Later in November this order was SENT:
CURRENT COMMENT.
THE ANARCHIST HERE.

THE ANARCHIST HERE.
EPuck.1
At the bottom of all the anarchism in this
country is sheer, plain, common, everyday
laZiness.
THE UNcEAsING MARCH
Boston Transcript
The arrival of 9,S02 immigrants at Castle
Garden in one day brings us days march
nearer to the inevitable time when this coun-
try will be crowded.
WHAT THE LONG HAUL HAS DONE.
cincinnati Commercal-Gazette.]
1t is the "long haul" rate at which food
has been transported th.,t is destroying the
power of the landed ariStocracy of England
English farmers cannot compete with those
IN other countries while steam power. by
land and sea, profits by cheap transportation
for great distances.
THE FIRST TIN PLATE.
[springfield Union.l
The first sheet of tin plate ever made in
this country was manufactured at the Hub
bard thinning company's works, at Hubbard,
o., Tuesday. The sheet is considered SUI
perior to the imported article. Now let us
have free trade and free competition from
England, so as to encourage this new and
important industry.
THE DRINKING HABIT IN NEW YORK.
New York SUM-
OF the people of New York the vast ma
iority above the age Of childhood drink Alec
hol in some form, the most common, fortu-
nately, being lager beer, which is The chief
beverage consumed at the run of barrooms.
Probably four-fifths of them either do their
drinking altogether outside of their homes
or send a jug for freshly drawn beer from a
neighboring saloon.
A CYCLONE.
[springhed Republican,
H.
dealers OF that State more destructively than
cyclone. The last Legislature not only
gave the women municipal suffrage, but
amended the drug store law" so that before
q druggist can get license he must secure
the signatures of 20 women and % men to
his Application. In good many towns the
women simply won't sign, and the trade of
the wholesale liquor houses in Kansas City.
ST. Joseph and st. Louis is badly hurt.
Heretofore druggist with license has sold
70 ANYBODY for any purpose, although the
law reads for medicinal and mechanical pur-
poses only, but with lot of women voters
ready to punish mayor who winks at viola
lions, or the probate judge who countersigns
the written application of the customer for
liquor under the latest law, if he relaxes
vigilance. the trade is reported to be really
injured, for the time at least.
THE SOUTH IN 1888.
philadelphia Press.l
The Republican Presidential candidate. al
ways protectlonist on a protection plat
form in the past, will, in 1888, be that first,
foremost and everywhere, and let no man
forget It'll For the first time in the political
memory OF men now living, such candidate
will find the South wide open for him
Wherever mine has been dug and fur
mace flames, wherever the factory windows
glisten by day and the smoke of the stack
rises by night, there is the protectionist
South, and with the issue narrowed down to
the simple question, protection or free trade.
for the infont industries of the south the an
swer will be one way. In such States the
republican candidate will show Mr.. Grover
Cleveland or any other Democratic candi
date how dangerous it is to talk free trade
wltnin nearing OF loom or anvil, within sight
of chimney or mine pit